During the month of April 2023, there was a decrease in the number of hospital admissions from 21 admissions in March 2023 to 8 new admissions in April 2023.
The Public Health Department will be hosting vaccination drives to celebrate the Pan American Health Organization’s (PAHO) 21st annual Vaccination Week in the Americas (VWA) 22nd – 29 April 2023. This year’s theme is Get up-to-date #EachVaccineCounts.
The Public Health Department will be hosting vaccination drives to celebrate the Pan American Health Organization’s (PAHO) 21st annual Vaccination Week in the Americas (VWA) 22nd – 29 April 2023. This year’s theme is Get up-to-date #EachVaccineCounts.
Public Health Department has announced that effective 1st March 2023, confirmation PCR testing for positives will no longer be required and COVID testing centres will cease operations on all three islands. LFT positive online reporting will also no longer be required.
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has focused efforts on a COVID-Zero policy during the pandemic, including stringent non-pharmaceutical interventions to control outbreaks.
The Ministry of Health & Wellness would like to advise the community that information relating to the COVID-19 “XBB Variant” that has been circulating widely via What’s App and other social media sites was not issued by the Ministry of Health & Wellness.
World attention is once again being focused on China over Covid-19, this time over the explosion in the number of cases following the Chinese government’s forced decision recently to ease its extremely restrictive lockdowns.
SARS-CoV2 vaccines licensed in the UK by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MRHA) are subject to additional monitoring.
Entering into the winter respiratory season there are signals of a concerning flu season with earlier than usual increase in Influenza cases being reported in the Northern Hemisphere.
In the Cayman Islands COVID-19 hospitalisations have increased slightly, however the number of people admitted remains in line with recent months. There were 17 COVID-19 hospital admissions during November, which has increased from 10 admissions in October.